The University of California requires incoming freshmen and women to take the Analytical Writing Placement Exam to determine their English placement. We use their model a lot in our high school English classes — both...
Read MoreThe English Department at our high school does a pretty impressive job of teaching and evaluating writing. I invited Lara Hoekstra, one of the leaders of this effort, to write a post describing what we do. One of the key...
Read MoreEach year for the past three years I’ve used the same “final exam” in my mainstream and ESL English classes, and they’ve gone amazingly well. I describe the process, including providing downloadable...
Read MoreIn my previous post, How My Ninth-Grade English Classes Evaluated Me This Year, I explained I was going to have my students evaluate the class and me after they used an improvement rubric to compare an essay they wrote in...
Read MoreAs regular readers of this blog know, every year I have students evaluate my classes and me and post the results — warts and all — here (as well as email them to my colleagues). I think that making the results...
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